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In reply to the discussion: It is not about the swimsuit issue it is about basic respect for women [View all]stevenleser
(32,886 posts)I think that is the problem with the choice the admins made to go to juries instead of mods which was basically deciding that the admins and what had been mods would not decide.
We can all disagree about where the line should be but with mods enforcing clearly defined standards, you knew where the line was and could make your decision about whether to continue to participate based on that line.
Some will say the line wasn't that clearly defined with mods. I think in general it was.
The line with juries is wherever four people out of six chosen decide it is on that day at that moment. We don't know who those four people are. They could have recently signed up from one of those sites that hate us. They could have had a bad day that makes them more angry than they normally would be. They could have had something so great just happen to them that nothing bothers them enough to hide it. The point is, four random folks whose state of mind could be all over the place, are deciding what is appropriate in an instant and one millisecond later that decision has no impact on whether a similar post will receive the same fate. And the only instructions given to them are to enforce this nebulous concept of "community standards" which as we can see from this debate is different to different people and no one is even enforcing whether a juror even used that as their consideration.
For all we know, the person could be settling a vendetta with their vote, or basing their vote on all kinds of other issues.
Often, people are jurors who have no training on what various minority groups find discriminatory. As a result, virtually every minority group on DU feels like discriminatory posts are passing jury votes.